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Ouch! Garbage on Beach - Part III

Is sea glass disappearing from beaches? The best sea glass beaches are from old dump sites.

Is the sea glass being replenished somehow nowadays?

Here we take a look at a two beaches along the Strait of San Juan de Fuca, Washington State, USA.

At the end of June 2012, we took photos of trash that had come down from the tall bluffs along this forested coastline not far from Port Townsend, Washington.

In that first article was a photo of a dumped toilet at the high water mark. A few days later, it was half to the low tide line. A week later, we saw a few chunks that might have come from the toilet, but the main part was not seen.

Yesterday, we took advantage of a very low tide to see if we could find the toilet.

Here is what we found (click on photos to zoom in).

No toilet in sight. Sand has moved in and out with each tide.

Here looking back from water toward the dumped appliances. Apparently the toilet is buried in the sand or carried out into deeper water.

The trees are where the trash is. Note the landslide next to the dump spot.

The land along this side of the Strait is losing from 2 to 10 feet each year as high tides eat away the foot of the bluffs.

...Now we go 40 miles west of Port Townsend to a spot just west of Port Angeles, WA. Beautiful, eh?